Ohio businesses want back $860M from workers' comp

Report: County firms owed $7.5M

6:38 AM,
Jun. 24, 2014

Written by

Bowdeya Tweh
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Ohio businesses want Gov. John Kasich to order the state Bureau of Workers' Compensation to return $860 million they say they're owed.

Pay Us Back Ohio BWC, a group representing more than 260,000 Ohio companies, called Thursday for the independent bureau to pay the restitution ordered last month by a state appeals court.

"If we're going to be a business-friendly state, why are we holding money back?" Patrick Perotti, a Cleveland-area lawyer for the companies that sued the bureau, said at a news conference in downtown Cincinnati on Fountain Square. ...